MS 7136 Ica slides and related material
1 Cassette
195 Slides
1 Item (sound recording disc )
The slides show various aspects of Ica life and homeland, especially their clothing. The textual data provide notes for the slides. The videotape is a copy of "Comisario Faustino," for which Billipp was assisted by Bob Harris, who operated one of the cameras and carried out some of the editing …
G. Gage Skinner collection
1972
265 Slides (photographs)
1 Sound cassette
This collection consists of 265 photographic slides and 1 audio cassette recording made by former Peace Corps volunteer G. Gage Skinner while living and traveling in Chile and Colombia in the 1960s-1970s. Images include portraits, landscapes, ceremonies, and daily village life. Audio recording includes songs, chants, and musical instruments.
Comisario Faustino
Edited video focuses on Comisario Faustino and his family, Arhuaco (Ica) peoples, who live in on Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. The losely woven story depicts the life of a comisario, Faustino, who is, in effect, an unpaid constable appointed by the Colombian government. Shown is the mountainous terrain …
Hector Acebes photographs of African and South American peoples
153 Prints (silver gelatin)
Photographs made on Hector Acebes's expeditions in Africa and South America, mostly during the 1950s. Many of the images document people and markets in Africa (1949 and 1953), including Kikuyu, Masai, Mangbetu, Fulani, and Bassari peoples. There are also photographs made in the French Sudan, Guinea, Togo, Dahomey, Cameroon, the Congo Republic, Ruanda …
Gregory Mason photographs and films
Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation
3 Videoreels (1 inch)
This collection contains 86 black-and-white negatives taken by Gregory Mason from 1916-1931. The images depict scenes of Belize, Guatemala, Colombia and Mexico, including Mexico City, Cozumel, Chichén Itzá and other sites in Quintana Roo. There are also video copies of Mason's original films shot in 1925-1928 in British Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico.
Division of Ethnology photograph collection 1
Consists of photographs collected by the United States National Museum (USNM) Division of Ethnology and later by the Smithsonian Office of Anthropology (SOA). Coverage is worldwide outside North America. Most of the items are photographic prints, some in albums. There are also negatives, photomechanical prints, artwork, and newsclippings. For the …
